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Featured August 5, 2026 · By Brijesh Patel
METHODOLOGY NOTES

What Is an AI Audit? Scope, Standards, and What You Get

An independent review of what your AI actually does, measured against a named standard — not a certificate, and not a review of what the documentation says it does.

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Notice before, disclosure after, human review on request, records for three years. Three are policy changes. The second is an engineering project, and it arrives late.

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Fixed prices, published turnarounds, and an honest account of the four things that decide which tier a system belongs in — including when the answer is "none of them yet".

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How to Prepare for an AI Audit: The Readiness Checklist

Six things to have ready before the engagement starts. Assembling them takes a fortnight off the clock — and tends to find the first two findings before an auditor does.

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Five working parts, not a policy document. What each one has to do, how to tell whether yours is real, and why a framework is not the same thing as compliance.

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AI Compliance for Healthcare Providers: What Actually Applies

Four regimes reach clinical AI, and they ask different questions. What each one wants a provider to be able to show — and the two places health systems are most often caught short.

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Partner banks, examiners and enterprise counterparties converge on four questions about AI in credit. What each one is really testing, and what an honest answer looks like.

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